My name is Maria Botsiou. I was born in Athens, raised in Piraeus, and my academic studies were in Thessaloniki (GR).
I graduated from the Department of Agricultural Development and Agribusiness Management from Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki in 2006. Being a scholar of ΙΚΥ-State Scholarship Foundation (GR), I received the Master of Science in Lifelong Learning and Adult Education from the Department of Educational and Social Policy, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki. Currently, I am a PhD candidate in the University of Macedonia, focusing on ICT in agriculture. My research interests include the agriculture education, agriculture extensions, rural sociology, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in agriculture, digital divide, social economy.